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The snowstorm of May 14, 1986 packed a winter wallop in Calgary 35 years ago this week. Hundreds of vehicles were stuck on highways. Police eventually closed off the highways heading north, west and east out of Calgary. Schools, stores, businesses and almost any place that could close did close.
More than 100 massive steel transmission line towers buckled and 2,300 wooden power poles snapped under wet, heavy snow of more than 30 centimetres and high winds. Officials from TransAlta Utilities warned that people in rural areas could be without power for up to a week and called it the worst disaster in the local utility’s history.